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Title: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: cav58d on May 31, 2017, 12:04:13 PM: New clouds look great but they have grid lines through them.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 31, 2017, 06:03:59 PM: A couple of screenshots showing the problem.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: bustr on May 31, 2017, 06:56:14 PM: Ack-Ack,

Your screen shots show an intense whiteout feature, cav described grid lines???

Cav, when you say grid lines, are you seeing a dark shadow line defining each of the smaller cloud parts that make up a larger cloud. Like someone drew a series of lines completely around a sponge making it look like the sponge is a collection of smaller sponges pushed together?
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 31, 2017, 07:14:37 PM: Quote from: bustr on May 31, 2017, 06:56:14 PM
Ack-Ack,

Your screen shots show an intense whiteout feature, cav described grid lines???

The white washout also appeared with this update but you can also see the grid line through the whitewash and also in the 2nd screenshot.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: cav58d on May 31, 2017, 07:21:16 PM: Quote from: bustr on May 31, 2017, 06:56:14 PM
Ack-Ack,

Your screen shots show an intense whiteout feature, cav described grid lines???

Cav, when you say grid lines, are you seeing a dark shadow line defining each of the smaller cloud parts that make up a larger cloud. Like someone drew a series of lines completely around a sponge making it look like the sponge is a collection of smaller sponges pushed together?

As depicted in both photo's, I am seeing grey lines intercepting one another at 90 degree angles.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: bustr on May 31, 2017, 07:58:43 PM: I looked at your bmps again Ack-Ack but had to reduce the luminosity on each bmp by 85% to see a large black grid system. I tried the same on some of my screen captures of testing the cloud editor for this latest patch. I can not reproduce the grid lines. My video card is a GTX760 playing the game in DX9, what cards are you and Cav using?
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: cav58d on May 31, 2017, 08:06:19 PM: 1060

I7

16gb ram
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: bustr on May 31, 2017, 08:15:35 PM: If Ack is using a 1000 series card, maybe it's a series issue....are you playing with the DX9 or DX11 executable.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: Devil 505 on May 31, 2017, 08:17:42 PM: (http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff252/DropkickYankees/ahss58_zpsaajv4nlk.png~original) (http://s241.photobucket.com/user/DropkickYankees/media/ahss58_zpsaajv4nlk.png.html)

Here you can see the lines.

Bur really, it's the white disk as a whole that looks awful. Please fix this ASAP. If the intention of revamping the cloud system was to improve the visual aesthetics, this is a huge step back.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: bustr on May 31, 2017, 08:53:07 PM: That looks like a stratus layer "over illuminating" from the light source called the sun in our AH3 graphic engine. It does not look like Hitech placed a full on weather system into that terrain's arena yet like I was testing offline today with my terrain BowlMA since I have to replace the one I created with the old cloud editor. In his instructions for the new could editor he said not to place layers over each other. So I do not have an arena covering stratus layer over my weather system I'm testing. I suspect the real bug here is the over illumination response by that single stratus layer covering the arena.

Got Clouds??

(https://s20.postimg.org/ljqk502od/newcldv201.jpg)

(https://s20.postimg.org/wklpa0ux9/newcldv202.jpg)

(https://s20.postimg.org/w948x9eh9/newcldv203.jpg)

(https://s20.postimg.org/7fzqtq1sd/newcldv204.jpg)

(https://s20.postimg.org/ex8y8xrbh/newcldv205.jpg)
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: oboe on May 31, 2017, 09:00:34 PM: Something's definitely off. I have an RX480 and it looks just like the screenshot Devil posted.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: JimmyC on May 31, 2017, 09:50:43 PM: Same gtx 960
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: TerryRF on May 31, 2017, 11:00:02 PM: I flew into clouds today for the first time since update and observed the gridlines and an area of the clouds that looked like blocks. Also when I flew into the clouds my fps dropped immediately from 120 plus to 22 - 26 or so. After leaving clouds fps back to 120+. Map was Montis.

GTX 1070, i7 3.7 ghz cpu, 16 G ram. Win 7 Pro. Was running DX 9.exe. Vsync on in AH. Vsync set to Fast in Nvidea Control Panel.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: toddbobe on May 31, 2017, 11:18:34 PM: I thought that disk cloud was an independence day ship. I was waiting for its main gun port to open so I could fly into the beam.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: lyric1 on May 31, 2017, 11:52:31 PM: I Have lines.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: Electroman on May 31, 2017, 11:56:06 PM: The stupid cloud update KILLED our squads run tonight on NIT city - 3 sets of B29's lost due to the over bright cloud layer, the solid block clouds below unable to drop...and setup for easy vulches.

I'm hoping this gets fixed ASAP and some perks reinstated as a result of that. Absolutely frustrating and unacceptable :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: hitech on June 01, 2017, 09:10:05 AM: I found the line issue, it is simply a gray border on the new texture. But the white effect Ack Ack is showing is something different.

What dx version Ack Ack?
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: hitech on June 01, 2017, 09:58:20 AM: Both issues fixed for next patch. The white sky was dx9 only

HiTech
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: bustr on June 01, 2017, 12:02:44 PM: Thank you Hitech, I tried to duplicate it, even enabling everything I normally disable in graphics. End result was a beautiful weather system with a high stratus layer.

(https://s20.postimg.org/psprqoiod/newcldv206.jpg)

(https://s20.postimg.org/wkg6tj7nx/newcldv207.jpg)
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: cav58d on June 12, 2017, 03:58:10 PM: I am still seeing the lines.
Title: Re: New clouds have grid lines
Post by: oboe on June 12, 2017, 05:51:48 PM: I still see lines on Montis as well, and whats worse the new clouds knocked my frame rate down from a solid 60fps to 19-23fps.